CVE-2023-28120 — Cross-site Scripting in Rails Activesupport

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting7 documents6 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 39.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Rails ActivesupportRubyonrails Rails
Timeline
PublishedJan 9

Description

There is a vulnerability in ActiveSupport if the new bytesplice method is called on a SafeBuffer with untrusted user input.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5rails/activesupport7.0.4.3 — 7.0.4.3+1
▶Debianrubyonrails/rails< 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

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CVEList
CVE-2023-28120: There is a vulnerability in ActiveSupport if the new bytesplice method is called on a SafeBuffer with untrusted user input↗2025-01-09
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OSV
CVE-2023-28120: There is a vulnerability in ActiveSupport if the new bytesplice method is called on a SafeBuffer with untrusted user input↗2025-01-09
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OSV
Possible XSS Security Vulnerability in SafeBuffer#bytesplice↗2023-03-15
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GHSA
Possible XSS Security Vulnerability in SafeBuffer#bytesplice↗2023-03-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
rubygem-activesupport: Possible XSS in SafeBuffer#bytesplice↗2023-03-15
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Debian
CVE-2023-28120: rails - There is a vulnerability in ActiveSupport if the new bytesplice method is called...↗2023
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